EP0820819A2 - Glasscherbenausscheidungsvorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0820819A2
EP0820819A2 EP97110529A EP97110529A EP0820819A2 EP 0820819 A2 EP0820819 A2 EP 0820819A2 EP 97110529 A EP97110529 A EP 97110529A EP 97110529 A EP97110529 A EP 97110529A EP 0820819 A2 EP0820819 A2 EP 0820819A2
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Junichi c/o Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Ltd. Ichise
Tatsunori c/o Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Ltd. Hayashi
Yasuhiko c/o Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Ltd. Ikegami
Yoshio c/o Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Ltd. Egashira
Makoto c/o Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Ltd. Kaneuchi
Toshio c/o Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Ltd. Sanagawa
Takeya c/o Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Ltd. Kawamura
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
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    • B07C5/3416—Sorting according to other particular properties according to radiation transmissivity, e.g. for light, x-rays, particle radiation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/36—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
    • B07C5/363—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution by means of air
    • B07C5/365—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution by means of air using a single separation means

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  • the present invention relates to a glass cullet separation apparatus, and more specifically to an apparatus for making a color separation of ordinary glass cullet (broken glass) of glass bottles etc. to be recycled and for making a separation of foreign glass cullet of heat resisting glass etc. commingled therein.
  • the cullet material fed from a hopper 84 and conveyed by a slide table 85 is detected of the foreign matters by a light source 86, the image receiver (or optical detector) 81 and the analytical device 83, and the cullet and the foreign matters are separated by the pusher 82 so as to pass on a non-defective shoot 88 and a foreign matter shoot 87, respectively, to be stored in a respective container (not shown).
  • the Japanese laid-open patent application No. Hei 7-132269 dated January 21, 1992 discloses, as shown in Fig. 10, a method and apparatus for making an automatic separation according to colors of cullet wherein the cullet screened by a rotary drum 91 to fall on a pallet is arrayed, while being vibrated, in plural rows by an arraying feeder 92 and placed on a separation conveyor 93, thus a color discrimination is made by a color discrimination camera 94 provided on each of the rows and, according to each color so discriminated, the cullet is pushed out on a delivery belt 96 of each color by a push-out member (brush) 95. That is, the apparatus of Fig.
  • the rotary drum 91 for screening fine particles of the cullet
  • the arraying feeder 92 provided in plural rows
  • the separation conveyor 93 the separation conveyor 93
  • the color discrimination camera 94 the push-out member 95
  • the delivery belt 96 for delivering the cullet so pushed out according to each color.
  • the Japanese laid-open patent application No. Hei 4-16273 dated January 21, 1992 discloses a color separation apparatus of cullet, as shown in Fig. 11, wherein, with respect to cullet groups classified to sizes by a rotary type dimensional classification device 101, plural lines of devices, each line consisting of an arraying lane 102, a carrying belt conveyor 103, a first color discrimination conveyor 104, a second color discrimination conveyor 105, a third color discrimination conveyor 106 and a fourth color discrimination conveyor 107, are formed and, downstream of the first to the fourth color discrimination conveyors 104 to 107 there are disposed a color discrimination sensor 108 and a separation device 109 composing a movable slide and a separation shooter 110 for making a color separation based on the result of the discrimination.
  • the present invention relates to a glass cullet separation apparatus for making a separation of cullet of an ordinary glass and a foreign glass such as a heat resisting glass and for making a color separation thereof, characterized in comprising: a hopper; a rotary feeder; an inclined guide plate; a conveying belt; a foreign glass discrimination device for radiating a laser beam onto a surface of the cullet passing on a slit of said conveying belt for emission therefrom and for discriminating yes or no of the foreign glass by analyzing a spectrum of the emission; a color discrimination device for discriminating a color; a foreign glass discrimination trigger sensor; a color discrimination trigger sensor; an air nozzle for blowing down the cullet at each predetermined position corresponding to the cullet of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color; a non-contact type photoelectric sensor for sensing the cullet passing the air nozzle; a collection shooter for collecting the cullet blown down; and a control device for controlling
  • the present invention relates to a glass cullet separation apparatus for making a separation of cullet of an ordinary glass and a foreign glass such as a heat resisting glass and for making a color separation thereof, characterized in comprising: a hopper for holding once the cullet of glass containing the foreign glass supplied from upstream and for supplying it to downstream at a certain rate; an arraying and supplying means for revolvingly accelerating the cullet supplied from said hopper so as to array it in a row by a centrifugal force and for delivery it continuously at a high speed; an inclined connection plate for accelerating a differential component of a speed of the cullet coming out of said arraying and supplying means and a speed of a cullet conveying belt, said cullet conveying belt being provided with a belt movement amount measuring means; a foreign glass discrimination device for radiating a laser beam onto a surface of the cullet passing on a slit of said conveying belt for emission therefrom and for discriminating yes or no of the
  • the present invention makes it possible to provide a separation of the foreign glass and a color separation of the cullet both of a high speed and a high preciseness and to provide a compact construction of the apparatus.
  • the glass cullet separation apparatus of the above-mentioned construction is made preferably as follows:
  • the hopper serves as a buffer for holding once the cullet supplied from upstream as well as for supplying it to the rotary feeder of downstream at a certain rate.
  • the rotary feeder is an arraying and supplying device in which the cullet of different sizes and shapes is arrayed in a row and continuously supplied therefrom for a precise discrimination and decision of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color and for a separation and collection thereof both to be done on the downstream side. It is made in a twofold structure of an inner ring and an outer ring, rotatable respectively, and the cullet supplied continuously on the inner ring side from the hopper steps up by a centrifugal force on the inner ring which rotates inclinedly and can move on to the outer ring which rotates around an outer periphery of the inner ring.
  • An annulus width of the outer ring is made approximately equal to or slightly smaller than the cullet, thus, at the time of movement from the inner ring, the cullet of one piece each is placed on the outer ring.
  • the cullet, arrayed in a row moves on the outer ring in a circumferential direction along a guide plate of the outer peripheral portion by a centrifugal force due to rotation of the outer ring and can be delivered continuously in a tangential direction of the outer ring from a delivery port provided at a portion of an outer wall.
  • the inclined connection plate for connecting the rotary feeder and the conveying belt functions to place smoothly the cullet delivered from the rotary feeder onto the conveying belt and to make an acceleration by a differential speed between the speed of the cullet coming out of the rotary feeder and that of the conveying belt.
  • the conveying belt is for conveying the cullet, placed on it, supplied from the rotary feeder via the connection plate and, as it is set to move at a slightly higher speed than the rotary feeder, a cullet to cullet space can be spread by the differential speed even if the cullet is linked to each other.
  • the belt is constructed by four belts which are rotatable by a single drive shaft and a slit-like cut out portion is formed at a midway of the belt upper face, thus, without employing a multi-stage or multi-series structure, discrimination of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color by use of a laser beam radiation and an illumination light transmission becomes possible, and as a separation device for separating the cullet can be disposed downstream thereof, the whole apparatus can be made compact.
  • On both sides of the belt on which the cullet moves there are provided guide plates so that the cullet may not spread but move in a state arrayed in a row.
  • a brush-like guide member on one side of the guide plates so that the flowing cullet is biased to the other side of the guide plates, thereby the cullet is to pass always on the slit provided on said the other side of the guide plates, and discrimination and decision of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color can be done without omission.
  • a servomotor containing an encoder is employed, thereby a speed control can be done freely, and a pulse signal of the encoder and a trigger signal of a photoelectric sensor, as described later, are combined, thereby control of the passing cullet becomes possible.
  • the foreign glass discrimination device functions to cause a laser beam source to radiate a laser beam to a surface of the cullet passing on the slit of the conveying belt for an instantaneous emission therefrom and to analyze a spectrum of the emission in real time for a high speed discrimination of the ordinary glass and the heat resisting glass and to put out a signal of the heat resisting glass (foreign glass).
  • the heat resisting glass can be discriminated by analyzing a differential characteristic spectrum such that an alkaline content such as calcium of the heat resisting glass is lower than that of the ordinary glass.
  • the color discrimination device causes a light from an illumination lamp disposed under the slit of the conveying belt to pass through the cullet passing on the slit and a discrimination camera disposed at an opposing position of the lamp to take an image of the cullet, and makes a color discrimination of the cullet image so taken by way of an image processing and puts out a color signal.
  • the first non-contact type photoelectric sensor for triggering the foreign glass discrimination device detects the cullet passing on the slit of the conveying belt, which becomes a signal for a radiation timing of the laser beam from the laser beam source of the foreign glass discrimination device.
  • the second non-contact type photoelectric sensor for triggering the color discrimination device also detects the cullet passing on the slit of the conveying belt, which becomes a signal for a shutter timing for the discrimination camera of the color discrimination device to take an image of the cullet.
  • the third non-contact type photoelectric sensor for sensing a passing of the cullet at the air nozzle portion is fitted slightly upstream of the respective air nozzle for the foreign glass and the cullet of each color which are the objects to be separated and senses the passing of the cullet, which becomes a signal for blowing timing of the air nozzle.
  • the air nozzle makes jetting of a pressurized air at a respective predetermined position of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color upon the electromagnetic valve being opened by a command from the control device and blows down the cullet to be separated into the respective collection shooter disposed opposingly thereto.
  • the collection shooter is an opened shooter disposed for each color of the cullet and receives the cullet blown down by the air nozzle.
  • the control device starting upon a foreign glass discrimination trigger signal and a color discrimination trigger signal, makes a control of timing for opening the electromagnetic valve of the air nozzle by a foreign glass discrimination signal and a cullet color discrimination signal as well as a belt movement distance pulse signal (encoder) and, upon coinciding with a cullet passing signal at the air nozzle portion (electromagnetic valve trigger signal), opens the electromagnetic valve.
  • the control device Based on said foreign glass discrimination signal and color discrimination signal, the control device makes an estimate of the movement amount with which the cullet reaches a corresponding air nozzle for separation of that cullet. As there is a case where the cullet reaches the estimated point late due to a slip with the belt etc. or advances earlier to the estimated point due to change of posture etc., the control device produces an electromagnetic valve opening enabling signal for blowing by the air nozzle having a time width corresponding to that delay or advance.
  • an electromagnetic valve opening signal is made by a logical product of the electromagnetic valve opening enabling signal and the electromagnetic valve trigger signal, thereby separation and collection of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color can be made securely even with respect to such cullet as flows continuously at a high speed or as has a slight deviation of position on the belt due to a slip with the belt etc.
  • the conveying belt is provided at its pulley shaft with a means such as encoder etc. for measuring a rotation amount, thereby a movement amount of the cullet corresponding to the belt rotation can be put out in a pulse signal.
  • the conveying belt being driven by a servomotor, a sensor signal for sensing rotational speed can be fed back for control of the rotational speed, thus a moving speed of the cullet is controllable.
  • the cullet separation device being so constructed that the cullet as an object to be separated is blown down into the collection shooter by use of a separation means such as air blowing etc. and a foreign matter is collected at a terminal end of the conveying belt without use of a separation means, in case a failure occurs in the separation, the cullet simply does not fall into the collection shooter of each color but is collected as a foreign matter into a foreign matter collection shooter at a rear end portion of the conveying belt.
  • a separation means such as air blowing etc.
  • Fig. 1 is an entire side view of a glass bottle cullet separation apparatus of one preferred embodiment according to the present invention.
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view showing an upstream side of the separation apparatus of Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view showing a downstream side of the separation apparatus of Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 4 is a plan view of the separation apparatus of Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view taken on line B-B in arrow direction of Fig. 4.
  • Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a conveying belt as one component of the glass bottle cullet separation apparatus of Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 7 is an explanatory view showing details of a vicinity of slit of the conveying belt of Fig. 6.
  • Fig. 8 is a cross sectional view taken on line A-A in arrow direction of Fig. 4.
  • Fig. 9 is a view showing a basic construction of one cullet separation apparatus in the prior art.
  • Fig. 10 is a view showing a basic construction of another cullet separation apparatus in the prior art.
  • Fig. 11 is a view showing a basic construction of still another cullet separation apparatus in the prior art.
  • Fig. 1 is an entire side view of the separation apparatus
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view showing an upstream side of the separation apparatus of Fig. 1
  • Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view showing a downstream side of the separation apparatus of Fig. 1
  • Fig. 4 is a plan view of the separation apparatus of Fig. 1
  • Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view taken on line B-B in arrow direction of Fig. 4
  • Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a conveying belt as one component of the separation apparatus of Fig. 1
  • Fig. 7 is an explanatory view showing details of a vicinity of slit of the conveying belt of Fig. 6, and
  • Fig. 8 is a cross sectional view taken on line A-A in arrow direction of Fig. 4.
  • a hopper 1 is disposed firstly on an upstream side of a flow of the cullet to be separated.
  • Empty bottles of various colors collected from general household, public facilities, etc. are broken and crushed by a crusher etc. (not shown) into appropriate sizes and screened by a screening device (not shown) into several classes of sizes, for example, 10 to 30 mm, 30 to 50 mm, 50 to 70 mm, etc. so that each class of the sizes is flown on a respective line.
  • the cullet separation apparatus of Figs. 1 to 3 shows a construction of one line provided to one class of sizes of the cullet 71 so screened at a previous stage, and the cullet 71 of 30 to 50 mm class of sizes, for example, screened at the previous stage is fed into the hopper 1 from a supplying belt 2.
  • a detecting sensor composed of a limit switch etc. (not shown) for controlling a feeding amount from the supplying belt 2, so that a remaining amount of the cullet fed into the hopper 1 is controlled always to a predetermined amount.
  • a vibrator 3 is provided at an inclined bottom face of the hopper 1 for generating vibration so that the cullet held in the hopper 1 is supplied from a feeding port 4 to a rotary feeder 6 provided downstream thereof via an inclined guide plate 5 at a certain rate of speed corresponding to the vibration.
  • a detecting sensor 7 as shown in the figure, composed of a limit switch etc. for detecting an amount of the cullet 71 within the rotary feeder 6, thereby, if the amount of the cullet 71 there exceeds a predetermined amount (i.e. at a time of excess supply), movement of the vibrator 3 is turned to "OFF” and if the amount of the cullet 71 falls short, the vibrator 3 is turned to "ON", thus the supply amount of the cullet 71 into the rotary feeder 6 is controlled automatically.
  • a predetermined amount i.e. at a time of excess supply
  • the rotary feeder 6 functions, while rotating, to array the cullet 71 supplied from the hopper 1 one by one in a row by a centrifugal force for delivery to downstream, a cross sectional view of which is shown in Fig. 5.
  • Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view taken on line B-B in arrow direction of the rotary feeder 6 shown in Fig. 4.
  • numeral 8 designates an outer wall
  • numeral 9 designates an inner disc
  • numeral 10 designates an outer disc
  • numeral 11 designates a guide wall.
  • a delivery port 12 is provided at an outer circumferential portion of the outer wall 8 for delivery of the cullet.
  • the outer disc 10 and the inner disc 9 are driven rotationally by motors 13a and 13b, respectively.
  • Both discs are constructed, as shown in the figure, such that the inner disc 9 is assembled in the outer disc 10 of a mortar-shape wherein a rotational axis of the outer disc 10 is in a vertical direction and a rotational axis of the inner disc 9 is inclined and an upper edge portion of the inner disc 9 and an upper face of the outer disc 10 are at a position of equal height shown as an intersection portion A in Fig. 5.
  • the guide wall 11 is fitted to the outer wall 8 of the rotary feeder 6 so as not to make contact with the upper face of the rotating outer disc 10, as shown in the figure, and is constructed such that its inner radius is widened gradually in a rotational direction from the intersection portion A toward the delivery port 12.
  • the cullet supplied on the inner disc 9 is caused by the centrifugal force to step up one by one on an outermost circumferential portion of the inner disc 9 in arrow direction Y of Fig. 4 to be placed on the upper face of annular-shape of an outer circumference of the outer disc 10 and is moved in array along an inner side of the guide wall 11 likewise by the centrifugal force to be delivered continuously from the delivery port 12 opening at the outer wall 8.
  • the rotational speed of the outer disc 10 and the inner disc 9 can be controlled by the motors 13a and 13b, respectively, and an arrayed supply from a low speed to a high speed is possible.
  • Numeral 14 designates a connection plate disposed near the delivery port 12 for connecting the rotary feeder 6 and a conveying device 15 of the downstream side.
  • connection plate 14 which is appropriately inclined downward from upstream toward downstream, the cullet delivered from the rotary feeder 6 via a guide plate 16 and the delivery port 12 can glide without deceleration (with acceleration) and move onto a conveying belt 17 without being rolled.
  • the conveying belt 17 functions to convey the cullet delivered from the rotary feeder 6 of the upstream side via the inclined connection plate 14 with a widened cullet to cullet space and with restriction of movement in a widthwise direction.
  • Numeral 18 designates a conveying device body, which is composed of a drive system 19 of the conveying belt 17, a foreign glass discrimination portion 20, a color discrimination portion 21, a separation portion 22 and a guide plate, as described herebelow, for restricting the cullet in the widthwise direction.
  • the conveying belt 17 is composed of four conveying belts 17a, 17b, 17c and 17d and has a slit 23 (cut-out portion) at a belt central portion through which radiation of a laser beam and transmission of an illumination light can be done for discrimination of the foreign glass and for color discrimination of the cullet.
  • a widthwise size of the slit 23 is generally no more than a half of each cullet size and, as shown in Fig. 7, a transparent plate 24 which can transmit the illumination light from an illumination lamp 38, as described later, is supported under the slit 23 by supporting members 25a and 25b.
  • the conveying belts 17a and 17b of outer sides are driven rotationally by a drive pulley 19a as a base point in a loop of nearly a triangle shape formed by drive pulleys 19b, 19c, 19d and 19e.
  • the belt 17c of the center is driven rotationally in the loop via the drive pulleys 19a and 19b and the belt 17d is driven rotationally in the loop via the drive pulleys 19c and 19d.
  • These rotational drives being transmitted via each of the belts and pulleys driven by rotation of the drive pulley 19a driven by a drive motor 19 fitted at a rear portion (downstream) of the conveying device body 18, all the belts can be moved at a same speed.
  • the slit 23 has a width of several mm which can be formed by a width of the belts 17c and 17d and which is required for radiation of a laser beam to, and for color discrimination by a color discrimination camera of, the passing cullet.
  • the widthwise directional position of the slit 23 is biased to the side of a guide plate 26a and the cullet necessarily passes thereon even if there are differences in sizes of the passing cullet.
  • the cullet supplied from the rotary feeder 6 of the upstream side is placed on the belts 17a, 17b and 17d of the upstream side via the inclined connection plate 14, wherein the construction is such that a passing width of the cullet on the belts 17 is restricted so as to be slightly larger than a largest size of the passing cullet by the guide plates 26a and 26b fitted to the conveying device body 18 and there is provided a brush-like guide member 27 on the upstream side of the belts 17, thus the passing cullet is biased to the side of the guide plate 26a from the center of the belts 17 so as to necessarily pass on the slit 23 while moving toward the downstream side.
  • the drive motor 19 is a servomotor which is able to easily make a speed control of the conveying belts 17 and has an encoder enabling a detection of a moving distance of the conveying belts 17.
  • the speed of the conveying belts 17 is usually made slightly higher than that of the rotary feeder 6 of the upstream side and by that difference in the speed, the space between each cullet can be widened even if there occurs a linking of the cullet supplied from the rotary feeder 6.
  • Control of the drive motor 19 is effected by a separation control device 28, as described later, via a cable 28a.
  • the foreign glass discrimination portion 20 is composed of a laser beam source 29, a mirror 30 and a convergent lens 31 for converging and radiating a laser beam to the cullet, a beam stopper 32 for intercepting the laser beam under the slit 23, a transparent substance detecting sensor (foreign glass discrimination trigger photoelectric sensor) 33 for causing a radiation timing of the laser beam source 29 to synchronize with the passing cullet, and an emission convergent lens 34, an optical fiber 35, an analyzer 36 and a foreign glass discriminator 37 for converging an emission from a surface of the cullet, analyzing an emission spectrum and discriminating the foreign glass (heat resisting glass).
  • the laser beam source 29 is disposed, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so as to be able to make radiation to the surface of the cullet passing on the slit 23 of the conveying belts 17, thereby causing the laser beam to converge via the mirror 30 and the convergent lens 31 and to radiate to the surface of the cullet for emission therefrom on an upstream side of the illumination lamp 38.
  • the beam stopper 32 is fitted immediately under the portion where the laser beam 29a passes through the slit 23 of the conveying belts 17 and intercepts the laser beam 29a so that the laser beam 29a after passing the slit 23 may not radiate to an under portion of the conveying belts 17.
  • the emission convergent lens 34 functions to converge a beam emitted from the surface of the cullet due to radiation of the laser beam 29a and is installed above the conveying belts 17, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and the beam so converged is sent to the analyzer 36 via the optical fiber 35.
  • the analyzer 36 makes a spectrum analysis of the converged beam and sends an analyzed signal to the foreign glass discriminator 37, so that the foreign glass discriminator 37 makes a discrimination of an ordinary glass or a heat resisting glass, etc. by a difference of the spectrum.
  • the radiation timing of the laser beam 29a As there are delicate differences in size, shape, passing speed, etc. of each cullet, in order to make a secured radiation to the surface of the cullet passing at a high speed, it is necessary to cause the laser beam source 29 to synchronize timely with the passing of the cullet.
  • construction is so made that the laser beam source 29, upon receiving a signal from the transparent substance detecting photoelectric sensor 33, as described later, can make a concurrent radiation.
  • the mentioned transparent substance detecting photoelectric sensor 33 functions to detect the passing of the cullet and thereupon to transfer a trigger signal for causing the radiation timing of the laser beam source 29 to synchronize and a signal for the separation portion 22 to adjust a timing for separation of the foreign glass, and is disposed at a position to be able to catch securely the passing cullet on the conveying belts 17.
  • the foreign glass discriminator 37 has a function of discriminating the foreign glass of the passing cullet upon a signal from the analyzer 36, a function of control for synchronizing the trigger signal (said sensor 33) and the radiation of the laser beam source 29 and a function of transferring a signal etc. as to the result of discrimination of the foreign glass to the separation portion 22, as described later, for separating the foreign glass. Transfer of these signals is done via cables 37a, 37b, 37c and 37d.
  • the color discrimination portion 21 is composed of an illumination lamp 38, a transparent substance detecting photoelectric sensor (color discrimination trigger photoelectric sensor) 40 for causing a shutter opening and closing of the color discrimination camera 39 to synchronize with the passing cullet, and a color discrimination device 41 for making a color discrimination and decision of the passing cullet upon a signal from the color discrimination camera 39.
  • the illumination lamp 38 is fitted under the slit 23 of the conveying belts 17 and exposes a light to the color discrimination camera 39 fitted at an opposing position via the slit 23.
  • the color discrimination camera 39 takes an image each of the cullet passing on the slit 23 by a light transmitting from the illumination lamp 38 and sends a signal of the image to the color discrimination device 41 for making a color discrimination.
  • the transparent substance detecting photoelectric sensor 40 functions to detect the passing of the cullet and thereupon to transfer a trigger signal for causing the shutter timing of the color discrimination camera 39 to synchronize and a signal for the separation portion 22 to adjust a timing for separation into each color, and is disposed at a position to be able to catch securely the passing cullet on the conveying belts 17.
  • the color discrimination device 41 has a function of discriminating and deciding a color of the passing cullet upon a signal from the color discrimination camera 39, a function of control for synchronizing the trigger signal (said sensor 40) and the shutter of the color discrimination camera 39 and a function of transferring a signal etc. as to the result of the color discrimination to the separation portion 22, as described later, for separating the cullet into each color. Transfer of these signals is done via cables 41a, 41b and 41c.
  • the separation portion 22 functions to control the cullet discriminated by the foreign glass discrimination portion 20 and the color discrimination portion 21 and flowing one by one on the conveying belts 17 and to blow off the foreign glass and the cullet of each color for a respective collection, and is disposed on the downstream side of the foreign glass discrimination portion 20 and the color discrimination portion 21, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3.
  • construction is so made that the separation is done in the order of less mixing ratio from the upstream side (the side of the discrimination portions 20 and 21) into four kinds of the foreign glass, green, brown and colorless transparence and others including foreign matters.
  • the separation portion 22 is composed of collection shooters 42 (42a, 42b, 42c, 42d and 42e), electromagnetic valves 43 (43a, 43b, 43c and 43d) and air nozzles 44 (44a, 44b, 44c and 44d) for making separation and collection of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color, foreign glass/color discrimination trigger photoelectric sensors 45 (45a, 45b, 45c and 45d) for detecting the passing cullet, a separation control device 28 for controlling a timing of blowing for separation of the cullet so discriminated to said four kinds into the foreign glass and the cullet of each color, an electromagnetic valve open/close circuit 46 for opening and closing the electromagnetic valves 43 (43a to 43d) upon a signal from the separation control device 28 and cables 46a and 46b for transferring said signal.
  • the collection shooter 42 comprises a foreign glass collection shooter 42a, a green color collection shooter 42b, a brown color collection shooter 42c, a colorless transparence collection shooter 42d and others collection shooter 42e, and the collection shooters 42a to 42d are disposed aside the conveying belts 17 in said order from the upstream side, respectively, and the collection shooter 42e is disposed at a downstream end portion of the conveying belts 17.
  • electromagnetic valves 43a, 43b, 43c and 43d for the foreign glass, green color, brown color and colorless transparence, respectively, and air nozzles 44a, 44b, 44c and 44d corresponding to each of the electromagnetic valves so as to form a pair, respectively, and compressed air is supplied to each of the electromagnetic valves 44a to 44d from an outside air source via a piping (not shown).
  • each of the air nozzles 44a to 44d disposed is a pair of a light emitter, on one side of the conveying belts 17, and a light receiver, on the other side thereof, for foreign glass separation and color separation trigger photoelectric (transparent substance detecting) sensors 45a to 45d for detecting the passing cullet and, upon its timing, making open/close each of the electromagnetic valves 43a to 43d.
  • a light emitter on one side of the conveying belts 17
  • a light receiver on the other side thereof, for foreign glass separation and color separation trigger photoelectric (transparent substance detecting) sensors 45a to 45d for detecting the passing cullet and, upon its timing, making open/close each of the electromagnetic valves 43a to 43d.
  • the electromagnetic valve open/close circuit 46 is a device for making open/close each of the electromagnetic valves 43a to 43d upon a command signal from the separation control device 28.
  • the separation control device 28 functions to make a speed control of the drive motor (servomotor) of the conveying belts 17 and to control positions of the cullet on the slit 23 of the belts 17 upon signals from the foreign glass discrimination trigger sensor 33, the color discrimination trigger sensor 40 and the encoder fitted to the drive motor and to cause each of the electromagnetic valves 43a to 43d to open and close and the air nozzles 44a to 44d to blow air upon the foreign glass discrimination signal from the foreign glass discriminator 37, the cullet color discrimination signal from the color discrimination device 41 and the signals from the foreign glass separation trigger and color separation trigger photoelectric sensors 45a to 45d, so that the cullet is separated to be collected in the collection shooters 42a to 42d of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color and in the collection shooter 42e of others.
  • valve opening enabling signal does not become "ON" and the cullet is not blown down by the air nozzle 44 but is flown into the collection shooter 42e of others.
  • the respective cullet supplied from the upstream side is blown down into the collection shooters 42a, 42b, 42c and 42d of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color, and the cullet decided as others is not blown but is collected into the collection shooter 42c of others.
  • a construction of apparatus in that case becomes realized for a color discrimination and separation of the cullet flowing on the conveying belts 17 by removing the collection shooter 42a, the electromagnetic valve 43a, the air nozzle 44a and the separation trigger photoelectric sensor 45a from the foreign glass discrimination portion 20 (composed of numerals 29 to 34) and the separation portion 22 thereof as shown in Figs. 1 to 3.

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